India’s Solar Physics and Space Weather

• India established its first space observatory at Lagrange point 1 to understand solar eruption processes.

• The country has opened its space sector to private companies, fostering innovation in solar storm modelling and space weather prediction.

• Solar activity significantly impacts life on earth and the technological infrastructure.

• Challenges in studying and predicting solar phenomena include incomplete understanding of the connection between CMEs and the solar wind, poorly defined magnetic structures of CMEs, and complex interactions with ambient solar magnetic fields.

• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched Aditya-L1, India’s first space observatory focused on the sun, in September 2023.

• The Indian solar community is working on enhancing ground-based facilities to observe the Sun.

• The Indian Institute of Astrophysics proposed a two-metre-class ground-based telescope for studying the sun’s lower atmosphere with high resolution.

• The long-term vision of solar physics in India includes plans to educate early-career researchers and young students on solar physics and to analyze Aditya-L1 data.

• The authors express optimism that in the next 10 to 15 years, India should be able to develop state-of-the-art prediction models for solar flares and the arrival times of coronal mass ejections.

Space weather research is important topic for Civil service exam (WBCS).

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